Barracks

Barracks are military housing. NCOs and enlisted personnel will frequently be housed in barracks for service or training. Lower level NCOs will be housed in larger numbers where as higher ranking NCOs or officers will be housed in fewer numbers.

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There are a number of remains of Roman army barracks in frontier forts such as Houseteads and Vindolanda. From these and from contemporary Roman sources we can see that the basics of life in a military camp have remained constant for thousands of years.

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Military: A military or military force (n., from Latin militarius, miles "soldier") has seen many different incarnations throughout time. Early armies may have been just men with sharpened sticks and rocks, through time they have included advancements such as men mounted on horses, men wielding swords and ot...

NCO: NCO may mean:...

Roman army: The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanorum) is the generic term for the terrestrial armed forces deployed by the kingdom of Rome (to ca. 500 BC), the Roman Republic (500-31 BC), the Roman Empire (31 BC - AD 476) and its successor, the Byzantine empire (476-1453). It is thus a term that spans approxi...

Barracks related Images and Photos (experimental)

Barracks Municipal City (Paris): the Mezzanine Level

At the Barracks Eight Thirty 1883

A View from the King's Barracks Fort St. George

Eating Soup at the Barracks from LEstampe Moderne Published Paris 1897-99